December 2011
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I asked my Chinese friend what her type is in men....
it's a pity that half of all Chinese words sound...
Developing world soap sucks.
November 2011
3 posts
If you lived everyday like it was the last day of...
i am great at chopsticks
The other night, I ordered some noodles for dinner in my little community Suo Jin, north of the lake in Nanjing. And, six grown men came out from the kitchen, placed chairs in a semi-circle around me and literally just watched me eat. It was like performance art. Unwilling performance art. Feeling mighty uncomfortable, I could not stop laughing, which intrigued them more.
I must learn more...
Please stop staring at me.
I am finding that I am too blonde to live in China.
October 2011
1 post
On living with geckos in Cambodia
I’ve been here for five months now. I’ve started to notice that there’s a lot of in-fighting amongst the geckos who live in my room over who gets to walk on my face when I sleep. Nestle in my mouth. Do they actually do this? This is one of my greatest fears.
A group of them live in my air-conditioner. I’ve named them after the Royal Family, but can never remember who is who. Camilla’s the...
September 2011
3 posts
Has anyone ever actually made it through...
I'm worried that my feminist hunting zine "Fish...
Smith College graduate claims, QUOTE:"Seriously, I...
August 2011
1 post
How do I stay so thin? I eat 160 small meals per...
July 2011
1 post
Confirmed: I'm not related to Michele Bachmann
I am related to the Minnesota Bachman’s of flowershop fame, but not to that freaky Sarah Palin 2.0.
May 2011
1 post
Skinny jeans have doomed an entire generation of...
March 2011
1 post
Sorry, we misspoke earlier:
There can only be TWO Highlanders.
February 2011
3 posts
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Seriously. Someone should start a food blog.
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What Baudelaire did for words, Matisse did for...
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Baltimore is a strange place
My favorite thing about living in Baltimore is that weird things happen, constantly.
I moved into a sunny 1 bedroom in Mount Vernon, and quickly discovered that I live nextdoor to a vampire. He’s an 18 year-old with prosthetic fangs, his middle teeth removed, slit-eyed contacts, glasses on top of that, corn-rows and a long leather jacket. I introduced myself in the elevator.
K: Hi,...
November 2010
1 post
I would definitely pay a lot of money
to see a ghostfight between Notorious BIG and TuPac.
August 2010
1 post
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Doctor Smithsonian moves to Baltimore, the city...
For the next few years, the doc is going to be reporting from the lacrosse heartland of America, Baltimore. So far, it’s been hilarious.
Running very late to catch a plane at BWI last week, I was luckily aided by a redneck, a deaf person and a meth user who banded together to get me to the airport on time. Individually, they would only be so-so, but as a group, they formed a crack team...
July 2010
2 posts
If zombies took over New York City, you would want...
June 2010
1 post
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Best stand-up overheard on the New York subway
I try not to listen to other people’s conversations on the subway because I want to maintain that private-in-public barrier where we all ignore each other and pretend the podcasts we listen to are much more interesting than everybody else’s.
The other day, I accidentally let down my guard as a group of 300 pound tourists entered the train. One of the guys let out this little gem:
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May 2010
2 posts
Observations from Luang Prabang, Laos: The longer...
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April 2010
2 posts
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Weirdest Use of Facebook, Or, I know what you did...
Today, Refinery29 wrote on a new concept jacket that is linked to your Facebook account. So, when you’re wearing the futuristic coat, your movements are wirelessly “pinged” to your Facebook friends. The hoodie then lightly taps you when someone pings you back.
First, this sounds a little uncomfortable. Who wants to know when you zip up your jacket or walk a little faster?
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Best Reason to Start a Big Gay Zoo
I love this Times article. Who doesn’t want a couple of bi-curious rabbits for a pets? Just look at the faces of those queer albatrosses. They are so cute. You know, sexuality has always been a spectrum for the albatross. Just as long as the gay animals don’t get married - that would definitely ruin the institution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?hpw
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March 2010
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Most Clever use of Chatroulette:: Or:: The Jonas...
Screenshot: Mine
While tooling around on Chatroulette with a couple of first-timers on Saturday, I came across a Frenchman studying to be a mime.
And then the Jonas Brothers.
They were on tour in San Francisco and subtly asked us to take off our tops. If it was a hoax that someone came up with just to see some skin, it’s so well thought out and executed with fully synced video and...
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Greatest Reason to Leave the Lutheran Church:...
A real shake up’s going down among Lutheran churches in Minnesota. The Star Tribune reported that a new Lutheran denomination will break off from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after its parent company, the Lutheran CORE, opposed allowing gay and lesbian pastors.
I’m proud of this splinter group and hope the rest of Lake Wobegon can catch up with reality.
Why hate when...
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Most Hilarious Hong Kong Event: AKA Count my...
My good friend Freya in Hong Kong just sent me this posting for an actual event in the city tonight which people are attending. This is both gross and amazing!
Beauty & The Bankers
Are you a fashionista looking for a guy in finance? Or maybe you’re a man of means looking for someone to help you count your bonus in a sexy voice. If so, this is the networking event for you. RSVP...
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Funniest Night Spent in a NYC Police Station
I spent last night on a grand tour of NYC police precincts in downtown Manhattan. My wallet was stolen last Friday somewhere between Ippudo and Gotham and a bunch of charges have been made for metrocards and airline tickets. A total bummer. But, over the course of the evening, I came to notice that policemen are a deeply funny people.
On the detective floor of the 6th Precinct in the village,...
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Let's say you are universally acclaimed British...
BEGIN GUEST POST by Oral Hygienist d’Orsay:
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You were trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. You are renowned for your star-making turn in The Lion In Winter. You are considered one of the greatest stage actors of your generation. You are starved for work. Then, one day, your agent hands you the script for Robocop 3, and the performance calls on...
February 2010
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Best Brooklyn Hipster Party Invite:...
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¡cruisebrooklyn! williamsburg, meet south beach. south beach, williamsburg. XXX S. 11th and Kent Top Deck departing: 6pm, also dockside caliente pre-party feat. Mystery Mystical Punch and brooklyn-miami fusion jams dress: tropi-casual RSVP tickets for suggested donation of $10 FREE FOAM PARTY with purchase of regularly priced ticket. for seaside difficulties please contact:...
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WatchThis is fantastic. “Rotating Kitchen” from Dutch artist Zeger Reyers is a square kitchen that slowly turns in place. It’s been rotating since December 9, 2009, and will finally stop next week.
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I’m only posting this because I know that the video will bother a few of my more O.C.D. readers, most of my immediate family and some former roommates. I’m looking at you,...
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Best of Winston Churchill: If the South won the...
Did you know that Winston Churchill wrote an alternate American history as if the Confederacy had won the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War?
Well, that would have fucked things up.
In the book, the British swoop in to act as the middleman between the independent Confederate States of America and the United States of America. Churchill predicts that eventually the North, South and the...
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Worst Case Senario: Unpublished Salinger story...
J.D. Salinger’s unpublished story “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls” discusses the death of Holden Caulfield’s brother who later becomes Allie in The Catcher in the Rye.
Unfortunately for all of us, it’s only available at the Princeton Library after you check in with two forms of ID and agree to be supervised while you read the story behind the doors of a special...
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When your brain gets the joke.
An article in the New Scientist reports on how different people react to jokes and the pleasure felt once we “get” a joke. One brain type called experience seekers, the kind of folks who seek out new life adventures, prefer jokes that that are nonsensical.
“The difference was most marked when the experience seekers viewed the surreal cartoons. Importantly, unlike the other...
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Investment-Banker High School
Some of us worked really hard in high school; others didn’t.
Here’s some of the absurd behaviors of a couple overachieving high school students before they went on to I-Banker College, actually I-Banking and I-Banker Parenthood. This list is based on a true story. Some scary stuff here.
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Photo cred: Mine, students filing into exams at Oxford University
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How You Know You Went...
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Hello cow.
What are you chances you make it to the Super Bowl this year as a football?
The New York Times works it out here.
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"Girls, what are we looking for in a man? Repeat...
- My mom’s version of ‘Natural Selection.’
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Growing up, my sister and I would have to repeat these three qualities back to my mom. Later, I realized what she really meant: we should be looking for viable mates who have no madness/alcoholism in the family, no visible tattoos and a trust fund.
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Do these people actually exist? I’ve found that all the most interesting...
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$104.3 million
An Alberto Giacometti sculpture sold at auction at Sotheby’s yesterday for a record $104.3 million. “L’homme qui marche 1” (1961) a bronze sculpture with long, slender limbs was sold to an anonymous buyer by phone.
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All this recent interest in Giacometti can be almost entirely attributed to Avatar. Isn’t there a crazy resemblance to the Na’vi?
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Probably not true.
A funny little study in Nature (2000) found that “finger-ratio” between the index finger and ring finger in men and women might signal sexual orientation. If your index finger is shorter than your ring finger, the study found that you’re probably gay.
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On my block in Chelsea, NY, if you HAVE either of these two fingers, you’re gay.
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